burntbacon

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[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Didn't bayer recently sell to another company? I seem to recall a neighbor who is retired from them telling me he can't shop at the bayer store anymore.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They sell the idea of a fantasy. There are plenty of men who joke about finding someone to make them a 'trophy husband.' Not having to work, being doted on by another person, having a life of luxury... these are powerful yearnings that can easily be twisted by manipulators. The short form video that has taken over everything is key to selling it as well. It hides all the negatives and just splatters you with all this positive feeling, and it works on basically everything. Recipes? Done in five seconds with the easiest cleanup (ignored). Chores? Done in six seconds by some 'amazing' method. Kids wrecking your peace and destroying the house? Easily solved with ten seconds of effort and supplies that magically appeared.

Now take all of those concepts and roll them up in a little package that is delivered to the frazzled, over-worked, financially struggling young person (in this case the girl who is now living on her own [without family, that is] with three roommates) and tell them if they can just find a husband who looooooves them all their worries will be gone, and being a trad wife suddenly becomes a dream. It's not really any different than how we culturally treat the wedding day: it's built into this giant affair that is largely promoted to be the highest peak in a relationship, and we get the stupidly expensive production and the bridezillas as a result. Now we're getting a large amount of women who are willing to trade the long term goods (suffrage and other rights) for what they think they could get as a tradwife.

I could go on about how men are also getting sucked into this fantasy on the other end as a part of that 'toxic masculinity' we hear about, but since we're on about tradwifes in this post, I'll save it.

Tesla is a pretty clear example of what's 'wrong' with stocks as a capital/market correcting factor. The value of a stock is solely dependent on what people think it's worth, and meme stocks go uuuuuup!

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays

I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch... she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.

Only if you get them quick chatting.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would hope the 'neutral word' was said at the same volume/rate/tone. Otherwise, yeah, it would definitely be a factor. Just like we can make ourselves angry with our thoughts, there must be a large difference in adrenaline released depending on how you emote.

I think I'd go with the moths. Least likely to kill me.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Those have always been a weird thing to me. Like, yeah, I definitely enjoy simulating the fantasy life, but there's something to the being life or death, and being stuck in it, that makes those actually work. If it wasn't a forced thing, they'd just be generic and boring. The recent one, shangri-la frontier, kind of fails to engage me (I mean to say, I enjoy it, but verisimilitude is broken) simply because it's so forward about the main character(s) having plot armor, and it partly has to be so forward about it because the characters aren't stuck in the world, so there's no explaining away things like sword art online did by having all the characters be 'equal' in terms of time played.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know. I may not have liked all of the stuff he did, but the larry the cable guy bit had some good ones, and foxworthy's bit about drug side effects was well done.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Unabashedly one of my favorite songs.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's incredibly simple. No one has to host a server, and it works well enough for everything you might try to use it for. Try to get someone to use something different, like teamspeak, mumble, ventrilo, or the copycats akin to matrix, and you will get endless bitching about some little thing that doesn't get done (usually screen sharing).

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